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Watching the new video for “Annie Mulz,” in which Moe Pope
and his bandmate Rain terrorize a Boston pub as vampires, you get the sense that Pope grew up loving the art of music videos. It’s the first single from the local indie hip-hop artist’s forthcoming album with Rain, “Let the Right Ones In,” due in January.

Pope, who is nominated for a Boston Music Award for hip-hop artist of the year, recently told us about five of his favorite videos. It was a tough call.

2. Madvillain, “Accordion” “It’s so plain. It’s MF Doom in a hallway, black-and-white, and to make that interesting, they did a really great job. A song has to be good, but a video has to be equally good.”

3. Zoo Kid (now known as King Krule), “Out Getting Ribs” “It’s another one where it’s very plain, but how they did this video is very classy.”

4. Beastie Boys, “Sabotage” “During that time, no one was doing concept videos, especially a hip-hop group. They made unbelievable ones. ‘Sabotage’ is the pinnacle for what you could do with hip-hop.”

5. Little Dragon, “Twice” “It’s subtle. The kind of animation they chose for it was beautiful.”